4 minSeason 2 • Episode 15
LatestThe red thing returns to cause chaos, and Rogg chases it into the swamps, seemingly losing his life in confronting the creature.
The Trap Door is a claymation-style animated television series, originally shown in the United Kingdom in 1984. The plot revolves around both the daily lives and the misadventures of a group of monsters living in a castle. Although the emphasis was on humour and the show was marketed as a children's programme but also for family entertainment, the show drew much from the genres of horror and dark fantasy. The show has since become a cult favourite and remains one of the most widely recognised kids' shows of the 1980s. Digital children's channel Pop started rerunning the show in 2010.
Practical Effects
Gloriously goopy stop-motion that still charms.
Sound
Berk's West Country burr is iconic voice work.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The show's cult following spawned fan conventions decades later, with original puppets appearing at events. Mills and Brain's other creation, 'Stoppit and Tidyup,' shares the same anarchic DNA.
William Rushton recorded all his voices in a single day, often improvising; Drutt's squeaks were pitched-up Rushton too. The ' trap door' itself was a literal wooden flap in the set.
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